wrestling

a sport in which two opponents struggle hand to hand in order to pin or press each other's shoulders to the mat or ground, with the style, rules, and regulations differing widely in amateur and professional matches.Compare catch-as-catch-can(def 3), Greco-Roman(def 3).

His passion was wrestling with a ghastly doubt, but it was of the kind that dies hard.

Round behind Teutoberg he pivoted—a wrestling trick he had learned as a boy.

wrestling

noun

any of certain sports in which the contestants fight each other according to various rules governing holds and usually forbidding blows with the closed fist. The principal object is to overcome the opponent either by throwing or pinning him to the ground or by causing him to submitSee freestyle, Graeco-Roman, sumo

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wrestle

verb

to fight (another person) by holding, throwing, etc, without punching with the closed fist

(intr)to participate in wrestling

(when intr, foll by with or against) to fight with (a person, problem, or thing)wrestle with one's conscience

Word Origin and History for wrestling

n.

Old English wræstlung, "sport of grappling and throwing," verbal noun from wrestle (v.). From c.1300 as "action of wrestling, a wrestling match." Figurative use from c.1200.

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wrestle

v.

Old English *wræstlian, frequentative of wræstan "to wrest" (see wrest). Cf. North Frisian wrassele, Middle Low German worstelen. Figurative sense is recorded from early 13c. Related: Wrestled; wrestling.